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Turn the garden you have into the garden you want, with our AI garden design app.

See your own garden redesigned from one photo in about a minute. Try 3 designs free. Or start from any garden on this page.

UK, US or anywhere else: plants picked to thrive where you live, in your light and soil.

Design my garden

Over 500 garden designs made.

Garden makeover ideas from real gardens

Every one is a real garden, redesigned with the app. Tap Before to see how it started. Like one? Tap Get this garden to redesign your own garden in the same style, with the same plants.

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Amber and orange planting round a garden room, redesigned

Amber and orange planting round a garden room

No lawn · Hot colours

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Gravel, lavender and dark leaves by a cottage, redesigned

Gravel, lavender and dark leaves by a cottage

No lawn · Mediterranean

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Deep cottage border with roses and geraniums, redesigned

Deep cottage border with roses and geraniums

Border only · Cottage

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Gravel path through red and orange planting, redesigned

Gravel path through red and orange planting

No lawn · Hot colours

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Clipped balls and a stone sphere by the house, redesigned

Clipped balls and a stone sphere by the house

No lawn · Evergreen structure

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Stone path to a pergola through cottage planting, redesigned

Stone path to a pergola through cottage planting

No lawn · Cottage

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Design my garden from a photo: how it works

You don't need to know the name of a single plant.

Our AI garden design keeps your trees, fences and house, and plants the rest the way a professional gardener would, with plants you can buy and grow.

Design my garden from a photo →
  1. Choose what to redesign and add a photo

    One photo from your phone is all it takes. Redesign the whole garden, or mark and measure just one border.

  2. Choose the look

    Pick one of 15 styles and a colour scheme, then ask for anything you want, like “add a wildlife pond”. Or tap Get this garden on any garden on this page.

  3. See it redesigned

    Your real garden, planted, in about a minute. Change it in your own words.

The 15 styles

  • Cottage
  • Modern architectural
  • Pollinator friendly
  • Mediterranean gravel
  • Evergreen structure
  • Prairie grasses and drifts
  • Woodland shade
  • Japanese inspired
  • Low maintenance
  • Formal and clipped
  • Tropical jungle
  • Wildflower meadow
  • Drought tolerant
  • Courtyard
  • Small space

Or any colour scheme, or describe the look in your own words. Over 200 ready made designs to start from, around 30 of them for cottage gardens.

Then turn your design into your dream garden with Pro or Max plans.Every plant is named and ready to buy online or at your garden centre, with a care guide to grow it well. Measure a border and we tell you how many of each to buy.

Design your whole garden, or plan one border

Start with as much of the garden as you want to change. Tap Before on each to see what changed.

Whole Garden Design

See the whole garden redesigned, and change as much or as little as you like.

  • Want a fresh start? New paths, patio, lawn and planting.
  • Love your patio and paths? They stay, with deeper, curving beds and one new feature, like a tree.
  • Happy with the shape? Just your beds get new planting.
Cottage gazebo garden, redesigned
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Border by Border

One tired border? Mark it, measure it, and see just that bed replanted.

Long cottage border beside a lawn, redesigned
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Garden styles, from cottage to modern

Cottage is the style people choose most. Here it is, then the other looks people love.

See every garden style →

Cottage garden ideas

30 cottage gardens made with the app, one after another, in every colour.

Cottage gardens
Stone path through apricot roses and foxgloves, redesigned

Cottage garden ideas

30 cottage gardens made with the app, one after another, in every colour.

More cottage garden ideas

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Modern garden ideas

Clean lines, paving, water and bold leaves.

More modern garden ideas

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Mediterranean and gravel garden ideas

Lavender, silver leaves and gravel, with drought tolerant plants that cope with a dry summer.

More Mediterranean garden ideas

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Low maintenance garden ideas

Paving, planters and tough plants that need little looking after.

More low maintenance garden ideas

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Prairie and meadow garden ideas

Grasses, meadow flowers and loose drifts.

More prairie garden ideas

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Shade garden ideas

Ferns, hostas and planting for shady corners.

More shade garden ideas

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Ideas for the garden you have now

Find a garden that started like yours. Each one plays before, then after. Tap to stop on one.

New build garden ideas

Gardens that started as new build plots: bare soil, new fences, a patch of turf.

New buildBefore
Lawn with stepping stones to a pergola: the garden before

Paved garden ideas

Gardens that started as patio, paving or decking.

PavedBefore
Rose and foxglove courtyard: the garden before

A planting plan for the garden you love

With Pro or Max plans, the garden you fell for becomes the garden you plant.

What is in a planting plan →

Plants you can find

Garden centre favourites and RHS Award of Garden Merit winners, chosen by a professional gardener.

Right for where you live

UK, US or anywhere else: plants matched to your climate, your light and your soil, so they thrive.

The garden stays familiar

Your trees, fences and house stay, and you choose whether the patio and paths stay too.

Help beyond planting day

Every paid design comes with a care guide and a flowering calendar.

Try the garden design app free

See your garden redesigned first. When you find the look you love, Pro or Max plans turn it into a garden you can plant.

Your first 3 designs are free.

Watermarked and lower quality. No card needed.

Start free
One payment, no subscription.
What you get
Designs2050
Days to use them1430
Free designs on top510
Designs at once, side by side24
With every design
Every plant named, ready to buy
The materials, gravel to fence, with whole garden designs
Care guide and flowering calendar
Higher quality images
No watermark
Change any design in your own words

With the Pro and Max plans

Every plant named, ready to buy

The pot size to buy and how tall each grows. Measured borders also say how many to buy.

From a whole garden plan
PlantPotHeight
Catmint 'Walker's Low'Nepeta × faassenii1 to 2 L10 to 50 cm
Avens 'Totally Tangerine'Geum2 L50 cm to 1 m
Giant montbretiaCrocosmia masoniorum2 L1 to 1.5 m
Tellmann's honeysuckleLonicera × tellmanniana3 to 5 L2.5 to 4 m

A care guide for every plant

Where it grows best, how to prune it and how it gets through winter.

From a care guide
Avens ‘Totally Tangerine’
Grows best in
Fertile soil that drains well, in full sun
Pruning
Deadhead to promote more blooms, and cut back old stems after flowering
Hardiness
Very hardy: tolerates the coldest UK winters
Habit
Dies back in winter and returns in spring
Catmint ‘Walker’s Low’
Pruning
Trim after flowering to keep plants compact and to encourage a second flowering

A flowering calendar

Every plant, the months it flowers, in its own colour.

From a flowering calendar
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Avens 'Totally Tangerine'

Catmint 'Walker's Low'

Clematis 'The President'

Lady's mantle

Clean pictures, no watermark

Higher quality images of your design, yours to keep.

A free garden design, with the watermarkgardendesignapp.ai
Free
The same garden design with Pro or Max, clean
Pro and Max

Change any design in your own words

Say what you want different, and see it redrawn.

ExampleMake the path wider and add a bench.

The materials, gravel to fence

On whole garden designs: the paving, gravel, edging and fence in the picture.

Example
Golden gravelSandstone pavingOak sleepersFeather edge fence

Plants that thrive where you live

In the UK, the US or anywhere else, we take your location and only give you plants that will thrive in your conditions.

Your locationYour lightYour soilPlants that thrive there

Why not a garden designer?

Save over £1,900. The average UK garden design costs £1,950.

A designer can visit, measure and oversee the build. When you want that, bring the look you found here.

A designerGarden Design App
CostAbout £1,950£29 or £49
First designWeeks to monthsAbout a minute
What you seeUsually a drawn planYour garden, redesigned
Ideas to tryVariesUp to 50
Change somethingCan cost moreJust say
When you work on itWhen they're freeDay or night

AI garden design, explained

What it is, the gardens it suits, and the rules every design follows.

What is AI garden design?

AI garden design, sometimes called AI landscape design, shows you your own garden redesigned from one photo. Add a photo, choose a look, and in about a minute you see the same garden, planted. Garden Design App is an AI garden designer made by a professional gardener, so every design follows the rules a garden designer plants by, with plants you can buy and grow.

An AI garden planner that starts from your photo

AI garden design from a photo starts with the garden you have, not a plan drawn from above, so you see it from where you stand, in full flower. Use it as a garden visualiser: try styles and colour schemes on the garden you have, before you buy a single plant.

For every kind of garden

Back gardens and front gardens, small and narrow gardens, courtyards and side passages, new build plots with bare soil, overgrown gardens, gardens of patio and paving, and gardens that are just lawn and a fence.

How to design a garden layout, the way a designer does

Start with what stays: the trees, the fences and any path or patio you love. Then plant in layers, tall at the back and low at the front, with heights that rise and fall along the bed.

Plant in groups, often 3 or 5 of one plant, and repeat them down the bed so it reads as one design. Thread one colour through several plants, and add a few contrasts so it never looks flat.

Leave no bare soil, and give longer beds evergreen shapes to hold them together in winter. Every design here follows these rules for you.

Garden redesign ideas to start from

Every garden on this page is a real garden redesign. Tap Get this garden on one you like, add a photo of yours, and see your own garden in the same style, with the same plants.

Try AI garden design free

Your first 3 designs are free, with no card needed. Open the AI garden design tool in your browser, on a phone, tablet or computer, and start. When you find the look you love, Pro or Max plans turn it into your dream garden, with a professional planting plan and every plant ready to buy.

Garden design app questions

Can AI design my garden for free?

Yes. Your first 3 designs are free, with no card needed. Add a photo of your garden, choose a look, and see your own garden redesigned in about a minute. The planting plan comes with the Pro and Max plans.

Can you design my garden from a photo?

Yes. One photo from your phone is all it takes. Redesign the whole garden, or mark and measure one border. Your trees, fences and house stay, and you choose whether your patio and paths stay too.

Do I need to know anything about gardening?

No. Add a photo of your garden and choose a look you like: a style, a colour scheme, your own words, or a ready made design.

Will it keep what I already have?

Your trees, fences and house always stay. Then you choose how much changes: a fresh start with new paths, patio and lawn; your patio and paths kept, with deeper, curving beds and one new feature; or just new planting in the beds you have. Or mark one border and replant only that.

Will I know exactly how many plants to buy?

For a measured border, yes, with Pro or Max plans. Whole garden plans name every plant with its pot size and height, without exact quantities.

What happens when I tap Get this garden?

You add one photo of your garden, and we show you that design in one border or across your whole garden, with the same plants, materials and colours.

Is there anything to cancel?

No. The Pro plan is £29 and the Max plan is £49, paid once. Pro gives you 20 designs over 14 days, with 5 free on top and 2 designs at once. Max gives you 50 over 30 days, with 10 free on top and 4 designs at once.

Can I use ChatGPT to design my garden?

You can ask it for ideas. Garden Design App is made for the job: add a photo and see your own garden redesigned in about a minute, then, with Pro or Max plans, get every plant named, ready to buy.

What is the best free garden design app in the UK?

Look for one that redesigns your own garden and tells you what to plant. Garden Design App does both: your real garden, redesigned from one photo, with your first 3 designs free. Its plants are garden centre favourites and RHS Award of Garden Merit winners, chosen by a professional gardener.

What is the best AI program for garden design?

The best garden design app for you is the one that shows your own garden and tells you what to plant. Drawing planners lay out a plot from above; AI garden design shows your garden from where you stand, planted. Choose one made by gardeners, with plants you can buy. Garden Design App is built by a professional gardener, and every design uses garden centre favourites.

How do I design my garden layout?

Start with what stays: the trees, the fences and any path or patio you love. Note where the sun falls and how wet or dry the soil is. Then mark your beds and plant in layers, tall at the back and low at the front, in groups repeated along the bed. Or add a photo of your garden and see it designed in about a minute.

What is the 3-5-7 rule in landscaping?

It is a planting rule: put plants in odd numbered groups, 3, 5 or 7 of one plant, rather than in pairs or rows. Odd groups look natural; even ones look set out. Our designs use the same idea, with clumps of 3 or 5 of one plant repeated down the bed, and the odd single plant as a focal point.

Is it an app I download?

Open it in your phone's browser and start: there is nothing to download. Garden Design App is a garden designer app that works the same on a phone, tablet or computer.

Is it a landscape design app?

Yes. It redesigns your whole garden or one border from a photo and keeps your fences and established trees. You choose how much changes, from a fresh start with new paths and patio to new planting in the beds you have. The planting suits your light and soil.

Who is behind Garden Design App?

Josh Hellicar, a professional gardener. Every design follows the rules he plants by, so the garden in the picture is a garden you can plant.

Why does my redesign look like high summer?

We show your garden at its peak, in full flower, so you can see how full it can look. It is an artist's impression: your real garden changes through the seasons. Every paid design comes with a flowering calendar, so you know what flowers each month, and evergreen shapes help it look good in winter.

Start with the garden you have.

One photo, about a minute. Your first 3 designs are free.

Design my garden